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Selected Essays | Merve Emre & Tobi Haslett on Susan Sontag (Bonus Episode!)

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Sontag and the Left

Rereading your pieces was a somewhat wincing, inducing experience for me because I wrote them five years ago. One of the many, many regrets I have about the Sontag I say has to do with how I read her through the perspective of the left. There were just moments when I could have been harder on her and I wasn't. And I think that I now just need to accept that that's not one of the things that I'm especially good at doing.

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